The federal Liberal government has given itself an extra two years to establish a long-promised buyback program for firearms it banned in the wake of the deadly 2020 Nova Scotia shooting rampage.
An amnesty period that was set to expire at the end of the month will now remain in place until Oct. 30, 2025 -- after the next federal election is scheduled to take place.
The Liberals first promised to launch such a program during the 2019 federal election, which Trudeau won, and again during the party's successful 2021 campaign. The group Ottawa announced it would work with to craft the commercial side of the buyback program said Wednesday that extending the amnesty was inevitable.
The parliamentary budget officer said in 2021 that such a program would cost upwards of $750 million. The prominent gun-control advocacy group includes students and graduates of Montreal's Ecole Polytechnique, where a gunman killed 14 women with a Ruger Mini-14 in 1989. The government ultimately pulled that definition and opted instead for a regulatory approach that would ensure guns are classified correctly before entering the Canadian market.
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